CHINA: Great Wise Priest

A good little man with a drooping mustache, a little round head and a little
round stomach was moving across Manchuria last week in a bright yellow
private car, with a brand new contract in his baggage. Every time the
train stopped hundreds of devout Chinese banged their heads against the
sides, the window panes, the brake rods, hoping to receive virtue
through their bumps. The good little man was the Panchen Lama who has
sometimes been called the Buddhist Pope.* His contract was with the
Nationalist Government of President Chiang Kai-shek to...